Snowflake

Introduction

Faraday easily integrates with Snowflake, enabling you to embed AI-powered predictive analytics anywhere else in your stack. Discover your brand's bespoke personas, score your customers for churn risk, find repeat purchasers, and more, enabling you to confidently engage the right customers, at the right time, with personalized, relevant content. The best part? No code—and no PhD—required.

Getting started

Make sure you have a Faraday account (signup is free!) and that it's not in test mode.

Prerequisites

You'll need the following details to create your connection to Snowflake:

• Organization name optional — Snowflake organization name. If provided, also provide account name. Preferred over legacy account locator. https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/admin-account-identifier.html#format-1-preferred-account-name-in-your-organization.
• Account name optional — Snowflake account name. If provided, also provide organization name. Preferred over legacy account locator. https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/admin-account-identifier.html#format-1-preferred-account-name-in-your-organization.
• Legacy account locator optional — Not needed if organization name is provided. If your Snowflake account existed before the Organizations feature was enabled, the Format 2 (Legacy): Account Locator in a Region is used as the account name.
• User required — Snowflake user.
• Role required — The Snowflake role that will be used by Faraday to connect to the instance (Usually this is FARADAY)
• Warehouse required
• Database required
• Schema required

Connection

Setting up your connection

First, you'll need to grant Faraday access to Snowflake.

Snowflake connections require determining the "organization name" and "account name" in addition to a user and password. We suggest that you create a Faraday-only schema to both send and receive data. Within this schema, Faraday would have full read and write access. Alternatively, you can give Faraday access to certain tables in a shared schema.

Example commands:

• CREATE USER FARADAY_USER

ALTER USER FARADAY_USER SET
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• CREATE ROLE FARADAY_ROLE
• GRANT ROLE FARADAY_ROLE TO USER FARADAY_USER
• GRANT USAGE ON WAREHOUSE COMPUTE_WH TO FARADAY_ROLE
• GRANT USAGE ON DATABASE DATA1 TO ROLE FARADAY_ROLE
• GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA DATA1.FARADAY_SCHEMA TO ROLE FARADAY_ROLE
• GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON SCHEMA DATA1.FARADAY_SCHEMA TO ROLE FARADAY_ROLE
• GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA DATA1.FARADAY_SCHEMA TO ROLE FARADAY_ROLE
• GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON FUTURE TABLES IN SCHEMA DATA1.FARADAY_SCHEMA TO ROLE FARADAY_ROLE

Faraday suggests that you use an unguessable string somewhere in the path to your data. This avoids what is called the Confused deputy problem

For example, instead of naming an S3 bucket s3://faraday-acme/, name it s3://faraday-acme-pwiiprz162ez. This guarantees that malicious actors cannot guess the name and request that Faraday import data from it into their account. The same logic applies to any path that is used to locate data.

Creating your connection

Now you can connect Faraday to Snowflake.

• In the navigation sidebar, choose Connections.
• Click the New Connection button.
• Fill out the form
  • Choose Snowflake.
  • Skip "Step 1" — you've already completed it!
  • For "Step 2," fill out the connection details you gathered above.
  • Enter a memorable name, like "My Snowflake connection".
  • Click the Save connection button.

Wait briefly while Faraday establishes your connection. It shouldn't take long.

Your new connection is now ready to use!